One Day

Released: 2011
Drama
Director: Lone Scherfig
Starring: Jim Sturgess, Anne Hathaway
Running Time: 107 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown:  Two people are seen for two decades on the same day to see how their friendship turns to romance.


This movie is terrible and terribly boring.  It's based on a book by David Nicholls and maybe that is much better, but this movie is terrible if you're looking for entertainment.
Sturgess and Hathaway meet on the day of their college graduation and get drunk together.  They end up back at her place and are about to have sex, but the moment passes and they decide to be friends instead.  Over the course of 20 years the movie shows snapshots of where both of them are in their lives.  Sometimes the spend the anniversary of the first day they met together, and sometimes apart.  They both take different lovers, one gets married and has a child, then gets cheated on so the marriage dissolves.  He is privileged and gets into drugs and alcohol while being mildly famous hosting a television show.  She is poor and works in a Mexican restaurant while going back to school to get her teaching degree.  Eventually she becomes a successful writer of young adult stories.  All the while they slip in and out of each other's lives, have fights, meet up again, etc.
If you cared anything about the characters, it might be a good foundation for a story, but since you really don't like either one of these people, the struggles they suffer through in normal life are empty and meaningless to the audience.
I actually cheered at the tragic ending, knowing that the movie was almost over.
The characters are only two-dimensional so I don't think it is possible for an audience to care about people who are lifeless and flat.  Anne Hathaway was supposed to be playing a British person, but she couldn't figure out whether her accent was English, American, or Irish.  Such an embarrassment.

Please skip this movie.

0 out of 5 for being uninspired and a pointless movie.